Sonja Uncaged — Amanda Linsmeier

A quirky short story about a lonely young woman riddled with panic attacks and agoraphobia. Sonja's only friends are her cat Louie, and her new bird Phinny. Despite her crush on her mailman Ben, she is unable to form relationships because of her crippling anxiety. And then one day, everything changes. Sonja wakes up inside her canary's cage. She and her bird have switched bodies. But before long, the story shifts even odder, and Ben the mailman and Louie find themselves in their own conundrum. Can a cat and a bird fall in love? Can a woman stuck inside a bird's body learn to love her life in a cage of her own making, or will she force herself to leave it and truly fly beyond what she thought ever possible?